Word: heals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When they concentrated on their own work, the U.S. surgeons had a hot time over a cool, cool question: Is it a good thing to freeze the human stomach to suppress the nagging pain of duodenal ulcer and-hopefully-to heal the ulcer...
...direct contrast, U.S. students refuse to allow themselves to be grouped into a single political class, and do participate in practical politics to a fair extent. The net result, in Reischauer's opinion, is that U.S. students are more active politically, and in a heal-their way, than are Japanese students. It almost invariably comes as a shock to Japanese students, he says, to learn that their American counterparts participate in campaigning, door-to-door canvassing...
...accepted premise is that the circle can and must be broken at the school stage. Equally important is that segregated neighborhood schools refute the original aim of Horace Mann's "common school," strengthening democracy by serving all races, creeds and classes. Integrationists believe that schools can help to heal U.S. race relations by returning to Mann's ideal...
Apart from that, regional differences make it clear that the most that can be achieved in the foreseeable future is a loose association of African countries patterned after the Organization of American States, with a permanent secretariat, council and program for economic cooperation. Such a grouping might help heal the rifts among the continent's current rival blocs-chief among them the left-leaning Casablanca group (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt), and the more moderate Monrovia group, now composed of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, the former Belgian Congo, and most of the former French dependencies...
Purple Danger. Fred Wallace had been a bleeder since birth. The absence of AHG (antihemophilic globulin) from his blood taught him early to live with danger. Every childhood spill, every bloody nose, was agonizingly slow to heal. The scrapes and scuff marks of a growing boy remained for weeks as ugly, purple discolorations under the skin. But Fred, like most hemophiliacs, survived all such crises. Then the disease caused other problems. Last spring, on a Sunday outing, Fred and his father had walked away from their parked car so that Fred might snap a picture. Inexplicably, the car started rolling...